The Patagonia Regional Times is a non-profit publisher that focuses on the Arizona communities of Canelo, Elgin, Patagonia and Sonoita in Santa Cruz County. They have been publishing printed and digital newsletters on a monthly schedule since 2009. Their motto…
Matt Mullenweg, the co-founder of WordPress, likes to pick a good honorable fight against closed, proprietary technology platforms. Matt is now choosing to pick a very valid fight against the fast-growing Arc XP platform. Dan Froomkin describes the start of…
Mundo Hispanico was the name of a massive media platform in the USA that focused on Spanish-language news. The company has been around for over 40 years and grew thanks to their print editions. The company has just rebranded to…
Laura Nelson gave a talk at WordCamp Europe in Porto and I’ve seen several people recommending it. The talk is “Creating a paid newsletter subscription in WordPress”. Laura shows how to create a clone of Substack using WooCommerce and the…
There’s a new non-profit publisher in Syracuse, New York called “Central Current“. They’re using WordPress and the Newspack service from Automattic. They’re starting a fundraising campaign with the goal of raising $1 million to help them through the first three…
If you haven’t read it, Sarah Gooding did an awesome job summarizing what’s going on with Phase 3 of the Gutenberg editor. That’s the collaboration phase with real-time co-editing of posts as you get with Google Docs. Here’s a quote…
One of the main ideas behind KinshiPress is that there’s lot of new WordPress-based publishers popping-up. This map from the Institute for Nonprofit News is a good way to see many of these start-up publishers …. the “Rural News Network”…
A key requirement for publishers is an editorial calendar so that your team can schedule content releases. For WordPress users, the best editorial calendar is probably the PublishPress Calendar plugin. In this guide, I’ll introduce you to the PublishPress Calendar…
I was talking with a friend this morning about WordPress sites and Adobe inDesign, so I thought it would be a good day to share “Eight Day Week“. It’s a very cool plugin for publishers who print. When an issue…
Over at LeakyPaywall, Peter Ericson has a great article on whether you should offer a subscription level that hides ads. His main example is Samsnytt, a WordPress-based publisher from Sweden. Samsnytt tries to upsell users to a special plan with…